Remember playing them Vintage Board Games ~ Parker Brothers Milton Bradley and Such

[SimplyMinded]

40K is definitely played on a “board”, just a lot more involved than most board games.

Me and my peeps have played many a game of D&D where we had physical representations on a board to help set the scene. It’s mainly mental, but we felt the models helped. It’s just hard AF to find model representations for some of the stuff you run into.

I say it counts, board or no. It’s still in the same spirit of things.

At one time I had a lot of miniatures. They were pretty expensive but now people can design and print one up on a 3D printer. There are entire cities and dungeons including castles sold in 3D print design plans now. Still gotta paint them though.